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The Minnesota Timberwolves, although a bit of a disappointment this season as many thought they would make the leap to playoff team (not me), still have one of the best accumulations of talent in the NBA under 25, a star in Karl-Anthony Towns, and presumably a very bright future. They have missed the NBA Playoffs [...]

So, um, it’s going to be a while before Joakim Noah takes the court again for the New York Knicks. The center, whom the Knicks signed to a four-year, $72.6 million deal last summer, has missed most of this season with injuries. Though he’s technically tending to an injury now, the Knicks scrapped to get [...]

The Los Angeles Lakers have been one of the hottest teams in the NBA over the past week, winning four straight games including beating a 60-win Spurs team and another playoff team in the Memphis Grizzlies. In most cases, finishing what has been a rough season strong would be a good if not great sign [...]

We may have to wait until the start of the NBA’s 2017-18 to see Ben Simmons play basketball again. The rookie has missed all of 2016-17 with a right foot injury, and the Philadelphia 76ers don’t yet know if he’ll be partaking in the summer-league festivities. Or maybe they do know, and they’re just not [...]

It would be understandable if the Portland Trail Blazers were relieved that they made the NBA playoffs. For a while, it looked like they wouldn’t. Even after they got hot, Jusuf Nurkic went down, and it kind of seemed like they might be done, too. They’re weren’t. They’re in the playoffs, having clinched a spot [...]

If the Chicago Bulls are going to clinch a playoff berth, they’ll have to do it without Rajon Rondo. Shoot, from what head coach Fred Hoiberg says, it seems like they’d have to play through the postseason without him, per ESPN.com’s Nick Friedell: Fred Hoiberg says Rajon Rondo has ‘significant’ wrist injury. Rondo had visit [...]

Achilles injuries alter NBA careers. They can even ruin them. So when Rudy Gay suffered his in the middle of January, the outlook seemed bleak. He’s on the wrong side of 30, and so much of his game is predicated on creating his own offense, something he might struggle to do upon return. Neither he [...]

When the Cleveland Cavaliers take on the Toronto Raptors in their regular-season finale, they will do so without LeBron James. From Cleveland.com’s Joe Vardon: LeBron James’ regular season is over, and the Cavs can’t wait to say the same. A team source said James would not play in Cleveland’s finale Wednesday at home against the [...]

Carmelo Anthony may have played his last game as a member of the New York Knicks. Yes, the Knicks have one tilt left to go, on Wednesday, against the Washington Wizards, but head coach Jeff Hornacek said Anthony will not be a participant, per Newsday‘s Al Iannazzone: Jeff Hornacek said Anthony probably wouldn’t play in the Knicks’ [...]

Although he may not be getting the sort of pomp and circumstance as some of his recent peers (ahem Kobe Bryant) during their rides off into the sunset, with the exception of that beautiful moment in his last game in Boston, Paul Pierce is one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history and his [...]